Jack comments on You cannot be mistaken about (not) wanting to wirehead - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 26 January 2010 12:06PM

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Comment author: Jack 26 January 2010 10:02:48PM *  1 point [-]

P v -p is disputed, so someone is wrong there. Also, if you have ever done a 10+ line proof or 10+ place truth table you know it is trivially (pun intended) easy to get those wrong.

I think the concept of a thought and what it is for a thought to be about something needs to be refined before we can say more about the second example. To begin with, if I see a dragonfly and mistake it for a fairy and then start to think about the fairy I saw, it isn't clear that I really am thinking about a fairy.